Thursday, December 30, 2021

A Sample Project Proposal on Promoting Rights and Access to Education and Health Services by the Nomadic Bede Community


 

Background

Bangladesh has a long and entwined relationship with its nomadic people who are popularly known as the Bede Community. For decades, the Bedes’ are engaged in catching and selling snakes, treating patients bitten by snakes, providing traditional medical services, selling bangle ribbon sand various types of small jewelries, performing magic or palmistry, showing monkey game, and so on as their livelihood strategies. The Bedes’ have their own ethnic culture which is disparate from other ethnic groups. The Bede community carries stigma as a Bede and are often labeled as “dirty,” “uncivilized,” “uneducated,” “rude,” and “aggressive”. The discrimination of the Bedes’ is obvious, almost palpable and discrimination and marginalization are the most important impediments in the development of the community. They remain extremely vulnerable within their own countries, where their human rights and their social, political and economic equality have been either denied or seriously undermined. Extreme poverty is higher in the Bede community which is compounded by other factors such as significantly higher illiteracy rates, unemployment, lack or absence of social services, and human rights violations. The Bede community found it increasingly difficult to meet their basic requirements of shelter, security and livelihood and most of them found it extremely difficult to gain the acceptance of the societies they have chosen to settle down with. Because of their nomadic pattern of life, still they do not access to educational facilities, medical care facilities, purifying water, sanitation facilities, and solid waste management facilities. They are still driven by the hereditary customs and traditions which escalates the rate of early marriage, gender-based inequalities, curtail women’s property rights, accessing quality health care, and so on. Moreover, almost all the Bede women not only face discrimination from outsiders of their community, but they also occupy a marginal position within their own community. Furthermore, it is presumed that the nomadic Bede community is reluctant to seek help for health issues, which plays a significant role in their lack of access to health care. In order to mitigate their marginalized or vulnerable conditions XYZ is interested launch a project under the title “Promoting Rights and Access to Health Services by the Nomadic Bede Community” (Maksud, 2009)

 

Rationale


Nomadic Bede community has a different culture than the other ethnic groups in Bangladesh. So the cultural diversity is the prime constituent of the nomadic Bedes’ identity in Bangladesh. The diversity of cultural realities of the nomadic Bedes was never taken into consideration in development strategies in Bangladesh though UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity proclaims that “Cultural diversity is one of the driving forces of development” ( UNESCO ,2002)

The project will bridge integrated building design with the broader sustainable development goals as presented in the agenda 2030 of the United Nations through linking the current practices, including sustainable building practices with the SDGs.  Multifarious goals set by UN  have been brought under the umbrella of the project like “end poverty in all its forms everywhere, Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all ,ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, reduce inequality within and among countries, ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, and so on.

Govt., UN Agencies, NGOs have launched numerous programs for the poor and marginalized but almost no development program has yet to launch for this socially excluded and stigmatized Bede Community. So this project will have the opportunity to work with an unexplored and untouched community.

 

The Goal and or Purposes of the Project

 

Goal of the Project: Promoting Rights and Access to Health Services by the Nomadic Bede Community

Major Objectives


·         To facilitate birth registration of the nomadic Bede community

·         To facilitate inclusive and quality education to the Bede children

·         To facilitate nomadic Bedes’ to get National ID cards (Citizenship) without having any address on the land

·         To promote marriage registration and reduce early marriage of the Bede girls

·         To promote access to national justice system to counter adverse legal practices in relation to rape, property rights, murder etc. (which is contradictory to national laws)

·         To promote use of portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines by the nomadic groups of Bede Community

·         To promote access to affordable and scientific health service sources (information and service delivery points) by the nomadic Bede community

·         To promote preventive health practices/hygiene practices by the nomadic Bede community

·         To extend counseling support services to promote mental health and child protection

 

Activities and Implementation plan of the project

 

Conduct Baseline Study of a Particular Bede Community with a view to Exploring the areas of Queries;

1.                        Availability, usage and maintenance of sanitary latrines

2.                        Knowledge and practises of hygiene and health 

3.                        Health seeking behaviors within the community

4.                        Seek citizenship and legal rights outside the community norms and practices

5.                        The ratio and causes of child marriage

6.                        Voter and Birth Registration ratio

7.                        Livelihood Strategies and impediments

8.                        The ratio of mother and child mortality rate

 

 

 

Raise Awareness on Voter Birth Registration of the Nomadic Bedes


It is reported that the rate of voter and birth registration in the Bede community is very low. Almost all the Bedes’ still could not enlist themselves in the voter list since they do have inadequate knowledge about the significance of voter and birth registration. This has inhibited their access to even basic citizenship rights, not to mention their constitutional privileges as the socially underprivileged. Thus, their difficulties in finding shelter, security and livelihood have been compounded by their maladjustment with sedentary society as well as it undermines the processes of their collective action for articulating the claim for rights and citizenship. After all, it leads to the social exclusion of the Bedes’ that manifests itself as a lack of access to resources, opportunities of substitute livelihood, power and upward mobility. It also escalates their economic and social deprivation. In order to pursue them for Voter and Birth registration XYZ will arrange 3 awareness sessions occasionally for raising awareness among the members of the Bede community about the significance of Voter and Birth registration and elaborate discussion on the procedures of it. The organization will distribute leaflet-poster-sticker-festoon in order to disseminate information about the significance of voter and birth registration. The main objective of the awareness sessions is to make them realize that in order to access to state entitlements requires formal state recognition in the form of national identity card and birth registration certificate.

 

Mobile Birth Registration Center


Mobile Birth Registration Unit: XYZ will build a Mobile Birth Registration Unit to work with government program to promote birth registration of the nomadic Bede children and adults. XYZ will arrange 2 laptops, internet connection, printing facilities, laminating facilities etc. XYZ will reimburse the partial cost as fees to government and materials costs.

 

Mobile Voter Registration Center


Mobile Voter Registration Unit: XYZ will build a Mobile Voter Registration Unit to work with government program to promote birth registration of the nomadic Bede children and adults. It is reported that the rate of birth registration in Bede community is very low. XYZ will arrange 2 laptops, internet connection, printing facilities, laminating facilities etc. XYZ will reimburse the partial cost as fees to government and materials costs.

 

Mobile School in Boats and Tents


Nomadic Bede children are traveling with their parents for 10 months in a year so they are getting deprived to have access to government primary schools. In each nomadic Bede group there are 15-40 children. One nomadic Bede group change almost 100 spots in a year and travel across 5-20 districts during this time. In Bangladesh there are around 10,000 nomadic Bede groups roaming throughout the country and no group stay more than 3-5 days in one spot. So our plan is to create an education opportunity for these traveler Bede children and to serve the education needs of this nomadic community. Through our research it is now proven that if a boat of a nomadic Bede group is given a black board, pocket board, chalks, duster, pencils, alphabet cards, cards showing words with pictures, mat, lamp, toys and ECCD materials under the supervision of a teacher then that teacher will be able to teach those nomadic Bede children.

        

Now we are proposing to DPE to support 5 mobile schools’ activities for one year. Under this mobile ECCD and school program 5 teachers will be selected from 5 nomadic Bede groups. This is a learning that prior to launching a mobile ECCD and school program for the nomadic Bede community it would be better to organize a teachers’ training course. Prior to launching the education program for the nomadic Bede community a 7-days’ a teachers’ training will be organized. It should be mentioned here that it is very difficult to find an educated person in a nomadic Bede group who is capable of teaching. So teachers’ training is inevitable. Moreover, there must be one day’s refreshers’ courses in every 3 month. Teacher of these schools will teach their students from 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. for six days in a week. Apart from teaching the teachers will arrange meeting of the parents of the students once in a week to discuss about the needs, activities, achievements and challenges of the students of the mobiles schools. In each mobile school there will be 4 classes i.e. Early childhood development centre-cum-pre school, class I, class II, class III. One teacher will be responsible to teach the students of these four classes. It should be mentioned here that the senior students will also help the junior students in learning to help their teacher.        

 

In every week each of the mobile school teachers will inform the location of the mobile school over telephone to the project implementation team so that the mobile school supervisor can visit the mobile schools. Thus a mobile school teacher will make mobile phone calls for 52 times in a year to inform their locations. After knowing the locations and traveling routes of the mobile schools the mobile school supervisors will plan their monitoring and supervision plan. A mobile school supervisor will stay with each of the mobile schools for five days in each month to help the teacher to teach the children as well as teach the teachers. Through this initiative the quality of teacher and quality of teaching environment will improve.

        

        

During traveling period in different places the teachers will advise the other Bede groups to introduce similar schooling facilities for the Bede children and will demonstrate the facilities and procedure of mobile ECCD centre-cum-school operation. During project period the model can be shown to government education and social welfare department, national and international NGOs and UN agencies so that they can replicate it if they would like to replicate it with their initiative.

        

The core team members of the project will monitor on the students who will leave the mobile boat schools and enroll in the government primary schools so that they can resist the drop-out process. 

 

Advocacy


Liaison with the government primary schools to help continue the education of the Bede students through reintegration of those Bede students who studied in mobile schools

After 10 months’ journey each of the Bede nomadic groups will again come to a specific place to stay for 2 months to observe their social gathering. During that period the project personal will again arrange meetings with the education stakeholders of a upazila and Bede community so that the progress of the mobile ECCD centres and schools can be monitored. Moreover, the project will also facilitate those students who wants to continue their education staying at their relative’s house after passing class II or class III from the mobile schools. Thus the reintegration process will help continue the education of the Bede children

 

Adolescent Advocacy Group to Counter Incidences of Child Marriage


Gender relationships in the Bede community are too complex to be articulated by a simple equation of status. The popular discourse about women in the Bede community is as subjugated and exploited beings who are forced for early marriages, often raped and get married by the rapist, overloaded with work and enslaved by husbands who are hardly engaged in any productive activities all day long and economically dependent on the Bedenis’ (wives and daughters). XYZ will recruit a number of adolescent volunteers from within the Bede community and facilitate training on the harmful concepts and impacts of conventional gender norms and practices and child marriage, pre-mature pregnancy and make them conscious and confident through empowering them so that in future they can reinforce their ideas within the community with a view to preventing child marriage and minimize the prevailing conventional gender norms and practices. In the long run the adolescents group will

·   expedite efforts to prevent child marriage;

·   support girls who will or have been married;

·   support girls at risk of child marriage;

·   defend the rights of girls to health and the opportunity to fulfil their potential; and

·   deconstruct the prevailing gender discourse within the community 

 

Conduct Sessions by a Community Health Worker about Health and Hygiene Issues and Practices


It is apparent that knowledge, practices about health and hygiene of nomadic Bede community is usually meagre, and the range of diseases and mortality rate is prevalent among the members of the Bede community. They are dependent of using herbs, vegetables, animal’s and mineral substances and certain other methods for their health related complicacies. Traditional practices equated with ignorance or backwardness are usually indicated as the main cause of diverse diseases amongst the Bedes’ .Thus, the health seeking process and the  causes of death of this community is extensively frustrating than any other socially excluded and deprived ethnic groups in Bangladesh.  In order to equip them with adequate knowledge about health and hygiene practices and promote health seeking behaviors , XYZ will arrange 3 awareness sessions, 2 programs, and will extend 10 consecutive days’  trainings with both the male and female members of the community on safe motherhood including danger signs of pregnancy, importance of postnatal care for both mother and child, disability care, menstrual regulations, and the use of contraceptive and emergency contraceptive pills, long-acting family planning methods, HIV/AIDS and other STIs, identification of STI symptoms, health and hygiene information and practices in more efficient and comprehensive manners.

 

Group Counseling on Child Marriage Issues


The prevalence of child marriage is higher in the nomadic Bede community which escalates early pregnancy, lack of access to family planning, and health problems domestic abuse and violence including rape. A large number of Bede girls are getting pregnant by the age of 14 and putting themselves at risk of death and injury due to early pregnancy. Hereditary customs and traditions are the pivotal causes of child marriage in the Bede community. As almost all the members of the Bede community are ignorant, illiterate, and underprivileged, age old traditions and customs are not easy to do away with. With the aim of eradicating child marriage within the Bede community XYZ will organize weekly group counseling with the parents on the demerits of child marriage.

 

Training on Prevention of Child Marriage to Religious and Community Leader, and Qazi (Marriage Registrar)


Religious leaders , community chief (Headman/Sardar) and Qazi are considered as influential figures in the Bede community, so XYZ will facilitate one months’ training and will subsequent follow-up of religious leaders , community chief (Headman/Sardar) and Qazi about the causes, harmful impacts, rules and laws of  early marriage, importance of birth , voter , and marriage registration , basic health and hygiene education and practice, promoting heath seeking behavior, citizenship, health , and  legal rights. It is also anticipated that their combined endeavor will to help dispel misinformation, engage community and promote the protection of children, adolescents, and women from violence, discrimination, stigma, and deteriorating mental health through disseminating meaningful, comprehensive, and positive messages   among the members of the Bede community .

 

Celebrate the Birth of a Daughter Child in order to Come out from the Traditional Gender Roles


XYZ will design this unique activity to establish a positive attitude towards girls among the members of the Bede community. Usually, all the families or parents who are driven by the traditional gender concept or are dissatisfied with the arrival of the girl child will be selected from the community to celebrate the birth-reception. A positive attitude towards the girl child will prevail within the family of the Bede community through the birth reception of the girl child. Awareness is created among the families of the Bede community through discussion sessions in order to lessen discriminatory behavior between boys and girls, increase the importance of child birth registration, break out of gender based stereotypes and evaluate the girl child. Moreover, XYZ will proffer gifts for girls (usually towels, photo frames, baby toys, mosquito nets, baby food, etc.) as well as will extend advices to ensure that the child is vaccinated, getting nutritious food as much as possible, and ensure their birth registration.

 

Introduce National Justice System and Legal Practices along with their customary law (Sardar’s Laws)

The Bede community exercises their jurisdictional functions in accordance with their own laws and procedures. They are still dependent on the hereditary justice system of the community since they don’t have adequate knowledge about national justice system and legal practices or they intentionally negate to take assistance from the national justice system. With a view to enhancing access to justice and promoting human rights of the Bede community, XYZ will  hire a lawyer/legist in order to conduct a number of sessions   for  introducing national justice system to counter adverse legal practices (rape, property rights, murder, and so on) by the Bede Community . The main objectives of these sessions will be

·   to raise consciousness about their rights and entitlements.

·   to organize them for articulating and better asserting their rights

·   to promote justice seeking behavior for countering adverse legal practices

·   to facilitate access to and use of the formal and state-based justice system by reducing barriers to entry

 

Construction of Portable and Nomadic Life Friendly Sanitary Latrines and Promoting User of these Portable Environment Friendly Latrines


The Bede community roams about from place to place aimlessly, recurrently, or without a fixed pattern of movement, which raises the unhealthy sanitation predicament.  They are unable to build fix and sustain sanitation system due to poverty and inadequate knowledge. They are habituated to open defecation and urination, which is not only responsible for polluting the environment but also leads to diverse health complications.  In order to mitigate the problem, XYZ will construct 5 portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines with community engagement in the construction process, so that the Bedes’ can later construct the portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines without any assistance from any organization. XYZ will implement behavior change strategy called Community-Led Total Sanitation, which is going to be designed to encourage communities to stop the practice of open defecation.

 

Promoting Access to Mental Health Services


The Bedes’ are socially and economically marginalized group tend to have higher rates of mental disorders due to their vulnerable condition. It is apparent that the Bedes’ suffer from the stress and other situations that result from outright discriminatory practices and the experience of being labelled as the other or deviant significantly impacts upon their resilience and wellbeing. After all, the major factors that responsible for poor mental health are unfulfilled needs and poverty.  Most of the members of the Bede community have the discernment that mental problems could be due to medical ailment or spiritual disease. Thus, considering their lack of awareness, their unfulfilled basic needs, and the rejection they faced from society, it can be inferred that this might be their escape to evade the stressful conditions of mental health problems; hence, they attribute such problems to witchcraft and magic. Moreover, the children are often victimized and abused within and outside community which leads to short and long term mental trauma and illness. XYZ will extend mental health, psychosocial support service, and child protection provisions by a hired psychologist. The organization will facilitate one counseling session per week by an expert psychiatrist on mental health and child protection and will go for therapeutic intervention to the victims (children, adolescents, women, and their families) of interpersonal violence, abuse and neglect.

 

Cultural, Religious and Recreational Activities on Multifarious Social Issues and Problems


XYZ will organize religious, cultural and recreational activities like organizing sermons by religious personnel, displaying drama, awareness video display, campaign through leaflet-poster-sticker-festoon on access to affordable and scientific health service sources and practice, harmful impact of child marriage, gender equality, disability inclusion, legal and citizenship rights within and outside the community, and so on. 

 

Livelihood Skill Training (Culturally Acceptable to Bedenis)


The Bede community belongs to the poverty line since their income source diverges from time to time as well as place to place after all, their income sources are indeterminate. They are having below average income. They have no other sources of income other than hereditary or traditional customs. Now a days so many Bedenis’ are seen begging in the bus stands and busy streets of different district towns including Dhaka city.  In order to make them economically and socially empowered and support them in attaining improved living conditions through access to the world of work and contributing to sustainable and increased family income, XYZ will introduce a number of trainings and business ideas with the members of the Bede community  like ;

·   will provide training of marketing products like dresses, cosmetics, and jewelries’

·   will provide training on making different handicraft items  by professionals

·   will provide sewing training to the Bedenis’ by a recruited woman tailor

·   may introduce commercial mobile snake farming and will extend training by an expert of snake farming until they are adept with the skills of these works.

 

Introduce National Emergency Service numbers


XYZ will introduce emergency service numbers through disseminating leaflets in a session like 109 for multi sectoral referral and psychosocial support, 999 for immediate services to police and hospitals, 333 for immediate reports/help for any social problems from enquiring after COVID 19 to child marriage and sexual harassment cases, and 10921 for immediate service to victims and links up to relevant agencies: doctors, counselors, lawyers, DNA experts, police officers , 1098 to facilitate reporting abuse, child rights violation or any other kind of incident disrupting the protection of children.

 

Distribution of Hygiene Materials to Subvert Unhygienic Practices 


As the Bedes’ are financially vulnerable which leads to unhygienic practices especially the women and adolescent girls’ are the most vulnerable to this during menopause .Poverty is so intense and hygiene knowledge is so inadequate in the Bede community that women can’t afford to buy sanitary products. This unhygienic alternative can cause infections, leading to a greater risk of complications in childbirth, and even cancer. Women are further vulnerable to infertility when their menstrual hygiene practices are unhygienic, for example, not changing their sanitary towels frequently, lack of adequate cleaning of reusable products, and the use of unclean water for cleaning both their bodies and their sanitary towels.XYZ will  facilitate 2 exclusive sessions with the women and adolescent girls’ on  health and hygiene menopause practices as well as distribute sanitary napkins occasionally in order to bring change unhygienic practice among them during menopause.

 

Geographic Location: Working Area of the Proposed Project

The project activities will be implemented at 10 areas where Bedes gather occasionally e.g. Louhajanj (Munshiganj), Srinagar (Munshiganj), Barisal (Gournadi, Torki, Takerhat, Sikarpur, Ujirpur) Jhalokati’s Sutalori village, Galachipa (Patuakhali), Madaripur (Kalkini), Chandpur (Kachua, Eliotganj and Matlab), Singra, Sunamgonj and Chatak.

 

Management of the Project

A Project Management Unit (PMU) will be formed under the direct supervisor of the Executive Committee of XYZ. The PMU will periodically report to the Executive Committee on the progress of the project. The Project Management Unit (PMU) will work under the leadership of Executive Director and General Secretary of XYZ and the Assistant Program Officer will work as member secretary of that unit. All the project staff will be members of the PMU. The members o the PMU will sit once or more in a week to plan, implement, supervise, monitor and evaluate the project activities. Since the project will follow the participatory approach in plan, implement, supervise, monitor and evaluate the project so before initiating an activity the members of the PMU will ensure participation of the primary and other stakeholders in decision making.

 

Brief Description of the Project Key Staff

Members of the Project Management Unit (PMU) will be the project key staff. The Executive Director, one Assistant Program Officer, one Accounts-cum-Program Assistant, 3 mobile school supervisors and 10 mobile ECCD centre-cum-school teachers will be the project staff.


Frequency and Methods for Supervision/Monitoring of the Project

The project key staff along with the stakeholders will prepare a participatory monitoring report at the end of each quarter. Different methods and tools will be used to monitor the project e.g. stakeholders’ workshop, Participatory Rural Appraisal, case study, survey, Focus Group Discussion, observation, photographs etc.   

 

 

Project beneficiaries


(e.g. The adult members of the Bede Community, adolescents,working children, children with disabilities, children with special needs):


Target Beneficiaries/Stakeholders

Primary stakeholders

Adult members of the Bede Community, adolescent’s children of the nomadic Bede community are the primary target group/partner of these project activities.

 

Secondary stakeholders

Adolescents and adults of nomadic Bede community, Neighboring Bengali community, XYZ Unnayan Community (GUC), Upazila level Govt. Departments, NGOs, primary schools, Union Health Centers, Union Parisad, media, civil society, UN Agencies, Govt. policy planners and Law makers are mentioned as secondary stakeholders.

 

 Project Output

·         Number of registration of child births increased by 50 percent by the end of 2024

·         Increased the number of Birth, Voter, and Marriage Registration   within the community by 60 percent by the end of 2024

 

·         Number of incidences of child  marriage decreased by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024

 

·          Increased improved behavioral change with particular regard to decisions about early and unprotected sex, STDs and HIV/AIDS prevention and management and the use family planning services as well as male involvement in the demand and utilization family planning services, which will enhance skills and capacity on preventive health care measures by 70 percent within the community by the end of 2024

 

·          Increased the educational ratio among Bede children by 80 percent by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of  health seeking behaviors  by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·         60 percent of the Bedes sought primary health care services from Community Clinics, Union Health and Family Welfare Centres and Upazila Health Complexes, Urban Primary Health Care Service Delivery Project’s (UPHCSDP) clinics

·         5 percent of the poor Bedes received red health cards from UPHCSDP to be eligible free medicine and advices

·          Increased the   incidences of  health seeking behaviors  by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·          Increased the  number of men participate, demand and utilize family planning services by 50 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·          Increased the  incidences of people accessing at the health care center  by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·         Decreased the incidences of adolescent/early pregnancies by 40 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·          Decreased the incidences of communicable and non-communicable diseases by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of  using portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines by 80 percent by the end of 2024

·          Decreased the incidences of adolescent/early pregnancies by 40 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·          Decreased the incidences of communicable and non-communicable diseases by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of  using portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines by 80 percent by the end of 2024

·          Decreased the incidences of mother and child mortality within the community by 70 percent by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of  psychosocial wellbeing and resilience of children, adolescents, and women will within the community by 40 percent by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of   health and hygiene practice by 60 percent by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of seeking citizenship, health , and  legal rights outside the community norms and practices by 40 percent by the end of 2024

·          Increased the   incidences of pursuing service from National Emergency Service numbers by 30 percent by the end of 2024

·          Decreased the treatment expenditure will be reduced by 40 percent by the end of 2024

 

   Project outcomes

            (Anticipated outcomes as a result funding this project):

  • Literacy rate increased among Bedes

 

  • Number of Bede students increased in the local government primary schools

 

  • Number of Bede children continued their education in the government primary school after completion of the schooling in mobile school.

 

·         Increased access to engagement on diverse economic activities and livelihood opportunities in Bede community

·         Achieved social and economic empowerment of the members of Bede community

·         Minimized the gender gap among the members of the Bede community

·          Habituated of health and hygiene practices of  the members of Bede community

·          Inclined to rights based practices (citizenship, health, and legal rights) achieved community empowerment formed adolescents empowered groups

·          Equipped with social awareness and skill development strengthen the child and women protection management within the community

·          Child marriage and early marriage come down gradually and significant

·         Mitigated environmental pollution

·         Supported businesses agreeing high quality and gendered business plans/screening products etc.

 

Means of verifications

·         Results of assessment, questionnaires, monitoring and evaluation

·         The ratio of child marriage

·         Number of volunteers will be hired and trained from the community to support and prevent child marriage within the community

·         Number of religious leaders, community chief (Headman/Sardar) and Qazis’  are trained

·         Number of behavior change communication materials will be printed and disseminated

·         Number of sanitary latrines will be installed and the number of people participate in the installment process

·         Number of Leaflets, banners, festoons will be printed and disseminated with clarification

·         Number of children and adults will take psychological support

·         Number of community members will be trained in sexual reproductive health rights, Family planning, and Sexual Behavior change communication

·         Number of trainings, sessions, and programs will be conducted

·         Percentage of health seeking behaviors within the community

·         Number of community members will participate in diverse awareness sessions, programs, and trainings.

·         Percentage of people will be accessing at the health center

·         Percentage of men who will participate, demand and utilize family planning services

·         Percentage of adolescent/early pregnancies

·         Percentage will be affected by communicable and non-communicable diseases

·         Percentage of people using portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines

·         Percentage  of adolescent/early pregnancies within the community

·         Percentage of communicable and non-communicable diseases

·         Percentage of mother and child mortality rate within the community

·         Percentage of Bede children enrolled in educational programme

·         Percentage of health and hygiene practice  within the community

·         Percentage of people seeking citizenship, health , and  legal rights outside the community norms and practices

·         Percentage of Bedenis’ will partake in the life skill training

·         Percentage of community members pursue help from emergency service numbers

·         Percentage of women and adolescent girls’ adopt hygienic practice during menopause 

·         Percentage of community members will attend in the cultural, religious and recreational activities on multifarious social issues and problems

 

Risk and Assumptions

·         National political stability

  • Willingness of the community and the stakeholders to participate in the implementation of the project.

 

  • Bede community recognizes  that health and hygiene is a key priority for them and they understand the benefits this would bring

 

·         Bede community’s willing to take ownership of the development process and will commit resources to its sustainability

·         The stakeholders cooperate fully in the realization of the project

 

·         The baseline survey is carried out appropriately and fully to identify the needs correctly

 

·         The database is comprehensive

 

·         Sufficient resources are available to carry out regular monitoring exercises

 

 

·         Hygiene messages will be correctly identified

 

·         Groups willing to support the right of women and girls to safety from exploitation and abuse

 

 

·         Community accepts the benefit of addressing women’s vulnerability and involving women community development work.

 

·         Community respond well to the process

 

 

·         Construction of portable improved sanitation may be problematic in the Bede community in river basins

 

·         Issues in communities (poverty, chieftaincy conflict, planting seasons) may lead to delays in communities empowering themselves to initiate and manage their hygiene and health issues

 

 

·         Trained local influential  will remain in targeted areas and apply their knowledge

 

·         Traditional and local leadership will accept SRHR activities.

 

·         Bede children’s’ willingness to attend in the mobile school

 

·         Parents’ willingness to send their children to the mobile schools

 

·         Health Service managers aware of their obligations in relation to girls rights and health and hygiene issues

 

·         Adolescents will not be involved in programme planning and implementation in a systematic manner

 

·         Project is part of coordinated sustainable economic empowerment programme

  • Enhance men’s awareness of and support for their partners’ reproductive health

  • Understanding gender and gender programming: a precursor to engaging men

  • Building staff and organizational capacity

  • Monitoring and evaluating the programme

 


Budget (Include a detailed breakdown of materials, services, equipment etc.)

 

Item

Unit

Number

Rate

Amount

1. Management Cost

 

 

 

 

2. Salary of Project Director/Executive Director of GUC

Month

24

20000

576000

3. Salary of Accounts-cum-Program Assistant

Month

24

15000

360000

4. Conduct Baseline Study

 

Month

1

 

 

 

4.1 Allowances

 

 

5000

5000

4.2 Equipment

 

 

5000

5000

4.3 Transport

 

 

5000

5000

4.4 Stationery

 

 

5000

5000

4.5 Others

 

 

5000

5000

 

 

 

 

Total: 961000

5. Mobile School

 

 

 

 

 

5.1 Salary of Teachers

 

Month

Number

24
5

15000

1800000

5.2 Salary of Mobile School Supervisors

Number

 

Month

5

24

12000

1440000

5.3 Rent for space in boats for mobile ECCD centre-cum-mobile schools

 

 

Numbers

 

 

Months

5

 

 

 

24

2000

24000

5.4 Mobile phone call charges by the mobile school teachers

Times

10

5000

50000

5.5 Cost of teachers’ Training (rent for dormitory, food etc.)

 

Days

10

20000

20000

5.6 Educational materials (book, paper, pen, black board)

Month

24

10000

240000

5.7 Training Materials for Teachers’ Training (Board, marker, paper, etc.)

Month

24

5000

120000

5.8 ECCD materials (black board, pocket board, chalk, duster, rhyme books, pictures, toys, playing materials

Times

24

10000

240000

6. Arrange awareness sessions, trainings, programs, and counseling

 

Number

2

20000

40000

6.1 Awareness Sessions on Voter and Birth Registration

Number

2

20000

40000

6.2 Awareness sessions and programs by a Community Health about Health and Hygiene Issues and Practices

Number

4

15000

60000

7. Group Counseling on the Prevention of Child Marriage

 

Number

4

10000

40000

8. Mobile Birth and Voter Registration Center

Month/Number

12

 

 

8.1 Laptops

Number

2

40000

80000

8.2 Internet Connection

Month

6

5000

30000

8.3 Allowance to the recruited registrar

 

Number

2

10000

120000

9. Training

 

Centers/Month

 

 

 

9.1 Training Centers

Number

2

50000

100000

9.2 Forming and Provide Training to the  Adolescent Advocacy Group to Counter Incidences of Child Marriage

 

Number

 

2

20000

40000

9.3 Training Materials

 

 

 

20000

20000

9.4 Food cost

 

 

 

 

9.5 Equipment

 

 

10000

10000

9.6 Facilitator's Allowance

 

Number

2

20000

20000

9.7 Training  on Prevention of Child Marriage to Religious and Community Leader, and Qazi (Marriage Registrar)

 

Number

4

20000

80000

9.8 Training Materials

 

 

20000

20000

9.9 Food cost

 

 

10000

10000

9.10 Equipment

 

 

10000

10000

9.11 Facilitator's Allowance

 

 

20000

 

10. Livelihood Skill Training (24 Sessions)

 

Month

 

 

 

10.1 Training Materials

 

 

20000

20000

10.2 Food cost

 

 

10000

10000

10.3 Equipment

 

 

15000

15000

10.4 Trainers Allowance

 

Number/

Month

2
12

20000

480000

11. Distribution of Sanitary Napkins

Packet

500

200

100000

12. Cultural, Religious and Recreational Activities on Multifarious Social Issues and Problems

5

 

 

 

12.1 Arrangement Cost

 

 

 

10000

50000

12.2 Hired performers Cost

 

 

20000

100000

12.3 Venue Arrangement cost

 

 

 

20000

100000

13. Session on Introducing Legal System

Number

2

 

 

13.1 Lawyer's Allowance

 

 

2

25000

50000

13.2 Materials Cost

 

 

 

20000

20000

14. Construction of 5 Portable and Nomadic Life Friendly Sanitary Latrines

 

Number

5

100000

100000

15. Monthly Progress Meeting

Number

24

20000

480000

Total                                                                                                                                                   7140000                                                                                                                                        

                                                 

 

 

 

(Taka Seventy One Lakh Forty Thousand Only)

 

Existing Resources Available

 

 (State briefly the experience, and provide proof, of the applicant(s) of implementing similar projects and resources available, personnel, office, equipments etc. to successfully carry out this project.)  

 

Relevant documents are attached herewith to describe the existing resources e.g. experiences of implementing similar projects, resources available, personnel, office, equipment etc.:

 

Annex-1. Organizational Profile

Annex-2. Executive Summaries of the previous Exploratory and Action Research Projects                            on Bede community conducted XYZ.

Annex-3. Newspaper Reports on the innovative mobile school model of XYZ                                     Unnayan Committee

Annex-4  Chapter of UNESCO published book that describes about innovative mobile                                   school    model of XYZ

Brief description of the organization:

Address

XYZ, House # 12 (1st Floor), Road # 6, PC Culture Housing Society, Shekhertek, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. Tel. 9114094, 01715-020055, email: XYZ@yahoo.com, web: www.XYZbd.org

 

Date of establishment

The organization was established on March 05, 1993

 

Legitimacy of the organization in terms of legal, constituency and constitution

XYZ (GUC) was registered under the Department of Social Service, Ministry of Social Welfare.  GUC also have NGO Affairs Bureau Registration from the Prime Minister’s Office of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh under the foreign donation regulation ordinance, 1978.

 

The 35 members of the general body of XYZ are the constituency of this organization. These 35 members elect the 7 members of executive body. The executive body develops policy, appoints staff and approves all decisions for the organization. The general body of XYZ develop and approve the constitution of the organization and amend it when necessary.

 

Main contact person of the organization and her/his address

Mr. A.K.M. Maksud, Executive Director of XYZ is the main contact person of the organization. His address is as below:

 

Address

XYZ, House # 12 (1st Floor), Road # 6, PC Culture Housing Society, Shekhertek, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207. Tel. 9114094, 01715-020055, email: XYZ@yahoo.com

 

Goal and objectives of the organization

 

Goals of XYZ is as follows:

 

·                           Establishment of socially excluded, poor and marginalized people’s rights

·                           Advancement of women’s rights for gender equality

·                           Development of a socially inclusive culture where diversity is celebrated, equal

                  Citizenship exercised, and non-discrimination is actively practiced

·                           Strengthening of people’s movements for social and economic justice

 

The objectives of XYZ are as follows:

 

To promote active processes for inclusion of the socially excluded and stigmatized communities (e.g. nomadic Bede, sweepers, Charmaker, Dom, Bagdi, Kawra, Kahar etc.), poor and marginalized.

1.      To promote the right to “quality education” for the socially excluded, poor and marginalized children.

2.      To promote the right to quality health care for the socially excluded and stigmatized communities, poor and marginalized. 

3.      To promote public accountability of government, private sector and international development agencies that secures economic justice for all.

4.      To facilitate an enabling environment where socially excluded and stigmatized people, poor and marginalized are able to exercise their right

5.      To increase access and control over natural resources and public services by the poor and marginalized.

6.      To promote woman’s right to create an enabling environment for her effective participation in social, political, economic and environmental dimensions.

7.      To create an enabling environment for practice of gender equity based relations. 

8.      To promote a culture for zero tolerance for violence against women.

9.      To promote an inclusive and barrier free society where enabling environment and conditions prevail for the persons with disabilities.

 

Executive Summaries of the previous Exploratory and Action Research Projects on Bede community conducted XYZ.

Research Study/Action Research Project Title:

 

1.      Participatory Action Research for Human Development of the Nomadic Bede Community, supported by Research Initiative Bangladesh/Royal Netherlands Government

 

 

2.      Action Research for Human Development of the Beday (River Gypsy) Community in Bangladesh, supported by Research Initiative Bangladesh/Royal Netherlands Government

 

 

3.      Prospects of Possible Interventions and Potentials for Sustainable Development in Beday Community, supported by Grameen Trust/Grameen Bank

 

 

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